Chapter 194: First Shot!
Anthony Davis's unexpected action made the audience exclaim, but because there were not many people at the New Orleans Arena, it didn't seem to be boiling from the scene, but the Pelicans bench was crazy. ↖ ↖ ↖ Top ↖ Story, www.
Davis is really a long-armed monster, especially this kind of dunk can show his perverted physical talent, the long arm is raised high, and no one dares to stop him. Although it is more difficult to pick up the windmill without Xie Chen smashing the board, this one is more imposing and domineering.
I didn't expect Davis to be in the mood to play this kind of self-throwing trick at the beginning of the game, maybe he had just defeated the Heat not long ago and already had confidence, or maybe he wanted to provoke Xie Chen off the court with Xie Chen's actions!
However, at this time, Xie Chen just smiled faintly, still sitting firmly on the bench, not moving, and did not show some attitude towards Coach Spo that I want to play, at the beginning of the game, Xie Chen was not in a hurry, he was confident in his teammates, no matter how bad the heat was without the Big Three, it was not an opponent who would be defeated in the first quarter.
Gradually, with a three-pointer from the right side of Rohr Deng, the Heat chased the score to just five points, but the Pelicans' Eric? Gordon made a European step layup, caused a foul and scored the ball, hit the Heat a two-and-one, and extended the score.
The foul was again committed on the Heat's starting center Hassan Whiteside, who received two fouls not long after Hassan played and was quickly replaced by Coach Spo.
It can be said that after the All-Star Game, Hassan's state is not ideal, perhaps because the main point guard and good brother Xie Chen are not there, Hassan is not as comfortable as before, and people are marveling at Hassan's talent at the same time. also gradually realized that Hassan is a big general, but he can't become a leader, and in the absence of the Big Three, he and Luo Erdeng carried the team, and they couldn't even beat the bottom team in the East, and both times were crushing defeats.
Hassan sat back in his seat. Xie Chen patted Hassan and asked, "You don't seem to be in shape today." ”
Hassan shrugged helplessly, he could see that he was very depressed, maybe he felt unfair about the referee's decision, at least the ball that defended Gordon just now was blown.
On the court is a two-point guard lineup, Chalmers and Cole, both of whom have shown a strong offensive **, speaking of Cole. Before the previous trade deadline, there were rumors that the Heat were going to send Kerr, but in the end, the Heat still retained the current lineup, so Kerr's appearance is particularly eye-catching.
Soon, halfway through the first quarter, Anthony Davis was also substituted off the break. He didn't have long since he returned from injury, and he couldn't play for too long. And now that the Pelicans lead the score, Monty Williams isn't in a hurry.
Monty Williams is the coach of the Pelicans, a mentor to the players, a spiritual guide and leader of the Pelicans, and he also serves as the heavy burden of training the thick eyebrows.
During Davis' rookie season, Monty protected him. Tong Guò limits his playing time and allows him to avoid all the strong opponents, because Brother Bush, like Brother Alphabet, is still in the development period during his rookie season. At that time, if you played in the No. 5 position, you would be facing a center that was 30 to 40 pounds heavier than him, which is why Coach Monty and the team were praised for knowing how to use Anthony Davis.
Modern players are getting injured more often than ever, so the pressure on coaches and management to win, coupled with the modern ability to heal diseases, must prevent key players from getting injured before disaster strikes.
This is also why Pat Riley has always been worried about Xie Chen, for Xie Chen, it is not a question of the length of playing time, but a problem of his playing style, his style of play is very problematic, as Riley often says, Xie Chen's body can't support his style of play.
But Xie Chen was very stubborn, because he knew that when he was doing those crazy moves, he was not using his own ability, and he knew very well where the limits of his physical confrontation and physical talent were.
However, Riley is called a "god operator", and it is impossible for him to guess that Xie Chen has a "basketball replication system", so there is an irresolvable contradiction between the two.
In fact, Pat Riley also wants to slowly let Xie Chen grow into a generation of superstars like the Pelicans tune 1 to teach Brother Thick Eyebrows, but Xie Chen can't wait, he wants all the honors this year, and he wants to become a superstar this year.
Xie Chen can definitely understand Pat Riley's thoughts, Pat Riley dreams of a championship, but injuries are the biggest enemy of the Heat championship!
Rose and the Chicago Bulls in 2012, the Oklahoma City Thunder who lost Willis in Game 2 of the playoffs in 2013, and the Boston Big Three, who won the championship in 2008, should have won more, but with Garnett going down with a knee injury in 2009 and Perkins tearing his cruciate ligament in Game 6 of the Finals in 2010, the dynasty that could have been forged was eventually disillusioned.
Pat Riley believes that Xie Chen will not hit the south wall and not look back, sooner or later Xie Chen will pay a great price, and Xie Chen's physical condition will directly affect whether the Heat can win the championship this year, in fact, after Bosh confirmed the reimbursement of the season, Riley no longer has any hope of winning the championship this year, coupled with Xie Chen's insistence, he even feels that the first round of the playoffs has become a big problem.
Or Roldeng, the Heat relied on Roldeng's stubborn stalemate in the score, and in the past two games, Roldeng was the team's leading scorer, but like Hassan, he was not a leader who could lead the team to victory.
Finally, with only 3 minutes left in the first quarter, Xie Chen appeared in place of Chalmers!
The scene instantly caused a small commotion.
"That Heat Zero has finally appeared, and he has appeared in the regular season game again after a week, I wonder if he will be able to continue the previous magic watch? Looking at the way he walks, it seems that he has only just recovered, and his explosive power is definitely not as good as before. ”
"Hahaha, I don't know anything else, in short, with his current state, it is definitely impossible to dunk like he did when he played the Lakers!"
"Well, speaking of which, he was really desperate to beat the Lakers in the last game, as long as there is a chance to dunk, he will never let go, and he is still playing fancy dunks, which is really cathartic, if it weren't for the injury, it is estimated that it will be our Pelicans' turn, and the basket will also suffer!"
Thinking of the last game of Xie Chen's game, everyone still has lingering palpitations about the Lakers' cruel dunk performance, but when they think that he has just returned from injury, and the coach has limited his playing time to protect him so much, I believe that Xie Chen should not dunk again tonight.
"It's a shame that when he came on the court, I was sitting on the sidelines, when will I be able to really fight again?" Brother Thick Mei sat on the field, looking at Xie Chen on the field, he really wanted to put on his robe and fight him for a hundred rounds.
Coach Monty smiled and said, "Soon, Anthony, it's just that you can't compete with the strongest him today, but in the future, there will be opportunities, because the future alliance is the world of the two of you!" ”
Surprisingly, Coach Monty also admires Xie Chen, but if he is replaced to coach Xie Chen, he will definitely press Xie Chen on the bench at this time and prevent him from playing.
After Xie Chen came on the court, he clapped his hands with teammates Haslem, Cole, Rohr Deng, and James Ennis one by one, officially announcing his return!
At this time, the Heat trailed the Pelicans by 8 points.
After coming on the court, Xie Chen, as everyone expected, did not show the excitement of the past, whether it was defense or offense, it seemed to be a beat slower, and obviously he still did not recover to his best state.
Xie Chen's body is indeed not restored to the best, especially in the case of fast down, no follow-up defense of the players, etc., it is very affected, but once the skill is used, Xie Chen will instantly become another person.
And what Xie Chen has to do in this game is to help the team catch up with the score as much as he can.
At the beginning, Xie Chen passed Haslem in seconds and easily assisted a ball, but the Pelicans' substitute center Akinsa was very powerful and returned another one to Haslem, and the score was still eight points apart.
Defending Xie Chen is Terrick Evans, 198cm tall, and it is defended by Xie Chen, obviously seeing that the current Xie Chen does not dare to break through like before, for him, Xie Chen's only threat is the three-point shot, of course, everyone knows that Xie Chen's organization of offense is also first-class, as long as Xie Chen is on the court, even if he does not score, he can connect the whole team to defeat the opponent.
Xie Chen didn't hit hard, distributed the ball to his teammates, and then slowly ran to the low position to ask for the ball, and after getting the ball, he relied on Evans to play.
"Huh? Xie is this going to be a back-to-back single? ”
"He's not explosive right now, so he's just going to play like that, but I'm skeptical he'll be able to get away from Evans' defense on the jumper, and I know he's got a good back, but he's just coming back now."
Xie Chen observed the movements of his teammates while playing Evans, in Evans' opinion, Xie Chen was a cover for beating himself, even if he really wanted to fight, Evans was not afraid of him, his height had an advantage, not to mention that after he returned from injury now, his explosiveness was definitely not as good as before, and his jump was not as high as before, if he wanted to get rid of his defense, he had to use a difficult backward jump shot, at that time, even if he threw it, I believe that the shooting rate would not be ideal.
And just when Evans was not very focused on Xie Chen's defense, Xie Chen took advantage of his unpreparedness and suddenly turned around and made a backward jumper!
"Don't you think about it!" Evans didn't expect Xie Chen to really dare to play, although he was a little sluggish, but his big palm immediately stretched out to cover it, causing Xie Chen to have to make a backward movement, and Xie Chen did keep leaning back in the air, Evans slowly lifted his palm into the air and floated in the direction of Xie Chen, trying to cover Xie Chen's basketball, but found that in the process of moving forward, Xie Chen kept retreating, and he couldn't reach the basketball at all!
"How could it be! How can he still jump so high now! Evans was shocked.
Then, with a whoosh, the basketball pierced through the air that had been comfortable for a long time and flew towards the basket! (To be continued......) R527